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A NEW DEEP FIELD FROM JWST 🤩🌌 some of these galaxies may have existed as early as 200 MILLION years after the big bang!

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Fire Station No. 5 on Ontario Street West (todays President-Kennedy Ave.) We see real bumpers on cars back then, but, what is interesting is the "Civil Protection" vehicle. - credit: R. St. Jean (La Presse) July 19, 1963.

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Legalizing sports betting might be one of the worst things we’ve done in the past decade

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During a debate titled "One Christian vs. Twenty Atheists," Jordan Peterson loses by forgetting what side he’s on

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“Our neighbour to the south may be modern day Rome in size and power. We are Athens, in culture, values and democracy.” —Francis Scarpaleggia, new Speaker of the House of Commons

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We honor all who made the ultimate sacrifice—among them, my friend Navy SEAL David Collins. He came home, but the war followed. After enduring repeated blast waves, he eventually took his own life, but not before donating his brain to science in hopes that future veterans might be saved #BrainInjury

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A little perspective. Facts.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Outrageous!

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"I wish you hope when things are going bad Kind words when times are sad I wish you shelter from the, the raging wind Cooling waters at the fever's end" -Bernie Leadon, Patti Davis (Eagles)

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👇👇 This. 👇👇

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Wayne Chan with the University of Manitoba sent me this picture of a project he completed over the holidays. It is the log cabin from the Laurentien pencil crayon package built with toothpicks! Very cool!

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❗️Massive attack on Ukraine at night again! 🙏 Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytskyi regions were under attack!

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Morning from Kyiv! Life is going on after another loud night. A drone attack lasted for 6 hours. Luckily, I don’t see information about casualties and much damage. Raining. I will have a warcoffee.

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355. This is the number of drones that russia launched over Ukraine at night. I am not sure if your media have mentioned it, so I decided to let you know.

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Sending His Best. Leonard Cohen Mural, Montreal. #spring #city #travel #architecture #photography

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After watching the 1960 NFB film Universe, Stanley Kubrick asked the film's narrator to provide the voice of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. That narrator was Douglas Rain, who was born and raised in Winnipeg. He was also a founding member of the Stratford Festival.

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Laurentien Pencil Crayons (sorry, always Pencil Crayons, not Coloured Pencils to me) were a part of many Canadian childhoods. The smell of that vinyl pouch is a nostalgic punch to the senses.

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Went to Chang's for my friend Kate's birthday, and the table behind us was another group of four women celebrating a birthday! These Black women were all born in 1950 in Portland and were celebrating the first 75th birthday of the year! They've been friends since birth!!! IT WAS SO SPECIAL 🥹

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The @nytimes.com brazenly doing race science -- small Chinese lady fingers -- to explain Chinese manufacturing capacity instead of assuming it has something to do with investing in expertise and capacity is really fucking wild Wildly racist and also undercuts the science section too

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100 years ago today a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

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Each day, I am looking at famous photos from Canada's past. Today, it is this picture of Mary Beer, a 62-year-old grandmother who worked 9.5 hours a day in a factory in Toronto to support the war effort in 1943. 📸TSPA_0019026F

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Part 2 of : Festival et Parade de théâtre pour enfants Parc La Fontaine, Montreal. August 20 and 21, 1982. ➡️Community, sharing and fun! Children first...always. -credit: Henri Rémillard.

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Since 1947, the Canadian Rangers have provided a military presence in the Canadian North. Experts in wilderness survival, they cover areas of Canada that are not practical for conventional Army units. Considered to be "always on duty", this is their legendary story. 🧵1/10

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Since the 1990s, when you want something to eat late at night in Halifax, the place you go is Pizza Corner. It was here in 1995 that several world leaders got a bite to eat during the G7. While it has changed over the years, it remains a local landmark. 🧵1/7

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Canadians didn't ban them We're just not buying them In the same way Americans haven't banned Target They just aren't spending their money there It's cool how the rich need our woke money

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May 25, 1935: Canadian novelist William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton. His work often focused on Canadian cultures, the First Nations and baseball. His 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe, was turned into the film Field of Dreams. He died in Hope, B.C. in 2016.

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May 25, 1918: Lt. Col. Samuel Sharpe ended his own life. He served in Parliament from 1909 to his death, and led soldiers into battle in the First World War, including at Vimy Ridge. It took a century for Parliament to recognize his sacrifice. Learn more 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/04/24/s...

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As a Brit, Starmer should understand better than anyone the lesson of Neville Chamberlain. There is no appeasing a monster. Grow a pair, Keir!

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Today at the Canadian War Museum, the panel exhibition, Canada's Unknown Soldier, opens. Through 18 curated panels, the history and legacy of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is highlighted. The panel exhibition will run until May 2026.

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Global inflation rates around the world. Canada is the 5th lowest. Don't let the Conservative narrative colour your thinking. In the grand scheme of the world we are currently doing fine. #dontbeCONNED

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This is what baffles me. It seems there were a few protests, now nothing.

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⚡️Explosions reported in Kyiv, other regions. Explosions occurred shortly before midnight in Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro, the news outlet Suspilne reported. The Air Force warned that Russia was targeting multiple regions with drones and ballistic missiles.

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Happy 84th birthday Bob Dylan! Right behind you…

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Another great Mark Twain quote... Probably my fave one RS

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Norman Kwong is one of only five people to have his name on both the Grey Cup and the Stanley Cup. He helped bring the Atlanta Flames to Calgary. He served as the Lt. Governor of Alberta. He achieved great things throughout his life. This is his story. 🧵1/10

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Each day, I am looking at famous photos from Canada's past. Today, it is this picture of two Blackfoot men taking part in a Sun Dance ceremony on the Blood Reserve near Cardston in 1953. The Sun Dance was banned by the Canadian government from 1895 to 1951. 📸LAC 4292976

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Decency is not hard to swallow.

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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

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I translated it for you. The post of a Ukrainian woman during the night attack on Kyiv. ‘Today, for the first time, my children were so afraid of the drones that they started praying (although this is not practised in our family) and crying. War and children are something unrealistically painful 😭’

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Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.

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Festival et Parade de théâtre pour enfants Parc La Fontaine, Montreal. August 20 and 21, 1982. ➡️Community, sharing and fun! Children first...always. -credit: Henri Rémillard.

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